Listen to Savages Jehnny Beths brutal solo single Im The Man – NME Live

Get a taster of her debut solo album, taken from the new Peaky Blinders soundtrack

Savages Jehnny Beth has shared a taster of her upcoming solo album with first single Im The Man. Check it out below.

A snippet of the track was first heard in the latest series of Peaky Blinders, with the song also set to feature as one of three previously unreleased track of the upcoming official Peaky Blinders soundtrack album.

A journey into different sounds, Im The Man stomps through the sonic terrain of industrial rock and punk, with a brief interlude into ambient piano. Lyrically, its an existential questioning of right and wrong.

Im The Man is an attempted study on humankind, what we define as evil and the inner conflict of morality, said Beth. Because it is much easier to label the people who are clearly tormented by obsessions as monsters than to discern the universal human background which is visible behind them. However, this song has not even a remote connection with a sociological study, collective psychology, or present politics; It is a poetic work first and foremost. Its aim is to make you feel, not think.

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While Savages have been on a break since 2017, Beth has used the time since to collaborate with the likes of PJ Harvey, The XX, Gorillaz, The Strokes Julian Casablancas, and Anna Calvi joining the latter on stage to cover Nick Caves Red Right Hand at the Peaky Blinders Festival in September.

Beth also released the acclaimedsoundtrack for Showtimes XY Chelsea a documentary about Chelsea Manning which she co-wrote and recorded with longtime producer Johnny Hostile.

Havingpreviously teased that a solo album is in the works, Beth said that wed be hearing plenty more from her various projects in 2020.

Im always making music, Beth told NME. I justfinished a soundtrack with Johnny Hostile for the Chelsea Manning documentary. Theres definitely new music coming out in the next year or so.Im finishing a lot of projects. Im living between London and Paris. I think youre about to find out!

And what ofher work with Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie?

Weve made some music together, yes, she replied. Ive been working so much on various projects, not just music. Part of our life is to create things. Its one thing to create something but then you have to remember to put it out. Thats just another thing we need to put out! Its in the charts and its coming!

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